Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

You can't have something without nothing.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.